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faster grading for free response assignments? yes, please!
jan. 10, 2020—gradescope is an online, ferpa compliant grading tool that professors can use to grade handwritten exams, typed homework assignments, lab reports and more. gradescope works well for many types of questions: paragraphs, proofs, diagrams, fill-in-the-blank and true/false to name a few. if your students can upload a pdf of their work, you and your team...
come work at the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分!
jan. 9, 2020—each year the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 (cft) hires a number of graduate students as part of its efforts to mentor and train graduate students, including those serving as teaching assistants or instructors of record here at vanderbilt as well as those interested in developing teaching skills for future faculty careers. the cft has several types...
incorporating games into ta orientation
jan. 8, 2020—by cait kirby, cft teaching affiliate and biological sciences phd student in my role as a teaching affiliate at vanderbilt’s 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分, i lead an orientation event for a group of biological sciences teaching assistants (tas). this orientation serves to educate new tas about their roles, vanderbilt policies, pedagogical techniques, and the types of...
journal club: understanding good practices for fostering undergraduate research
jan. 7, 2020—many faculty consider undergraduate research to be the pinnacle of an undergraduate career, and departments across vanderbilt provide opportunities for students to pursue a variety of research. as immersion vanderbilt matures, this commitment is only likely to grow. how do we foster productive research experiences for our students? what are good practices for helping students...
grades as a necessary evil? how they affect student motivation and what we can do about it.
dec. 19, 2019—by heather fedesco, cft assistant director during the december meeting of the cft’s student motivation journal club, we tackled the perplexing question of whether grades help or hinder student motivation. chamberlin and colleagues’ paper titled, “the impact of grades on student motivation” gave us a great launching point to embark on this discussion. the authors...
new cft guide on assessing student learning now available
dec. 18, 2019—student assessment is, arguably, the centerpiece of the teaching and learning process and therefore the subject of much discussion in the scholarship of teaching and learning. without some method of obtaining and analyzing evidence of student learning, we can never know whether our teaching is making a difference. that is, teaching requires some process through...
come work at the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分!
dec. 16, 2019—each year the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 (cft) hires a number of graduate students as part of its efforts to mentor and train graduate students, including those serving as teaching assistants or instructors of record here at vanderbilt as well as those interested in developing teaching skills for future faculty careers. the cft has several types...